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A headline might grab me, but the synopsis shows me it's something else.Ī GOOD site will do exactly that. I have a lot of general feeds from big news sites (CNN, NYT, etc) that I don't want every single story syndicated in full. I do fully agree with others that sites that give you a sentence or two in the feed suck ass (looking at IGN here), but I most certainly absolutely without question DO NOT want the entire article syndicated. What I can't stand though is when there's advertising in each RSS item of a given feed and the advertising occupies more space than the content itself (Wired). I'm even ok with a 1-2 sentence summary in the RSS feed sometimes.

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I don't mind sites that only post a paragraph or two to their RSS feeds, like Engadget - that's usually more than enough to figure out if the full article is worth reading. Yeah, sometimes you may still need to jump to the actual website to see the full article, but it's still a more efficient way to find the articles you want to read in full rather than visiting and scanning each site independently. Scan article headlines quickly, more easily scan past the ones you're not interested in and lock on the ones you do. On my computer I've used various readers, but it always ends with me going to the actual webpage.Īm I doing it wrong or do these things really serve no purpose aside from live notification of updates?Ĭonsidering that some people have migrated from RSS readers to Twitter as their primary source of news/info, where the 'feeds' are even more constrained, you really are doing it wrong, Rubx.Ī good RSS reader is about aggregating your favorite news and web updates into one, concise information portal.

Is there any possible way to make RSS readers not totally blow? My current workflow on my iPad is to send various articles from Reeder into Instapaper and read them there, but for some sites even THAT doesn't really get the full article properly. I get it, those web pages want you to visit their site so they get ad revenue.but why even have an RSS feed if that's your ultimate goal? I visit the sites I care about like 50 times a day to check for updates, and that feels WAY better than relying on an RSS reader.because I can actually read the damn article when it's posted, and I'm giving that site a fuckton of views because I'm constantly refreshing.

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Why even have RSS readers? Aren't these things really just serving as live update notification systems, not actually a readers? so in order to actually read the article, I need to go to their website anyways. Seems like just about every feed I subscribe to only gives you like a paragraph, and only some give you the main article picture in the feed as well. So I'm trying.TRYING to get RSS readers to be useful for me, but I just can't.

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